Timeline: Early Romantic Era - Early 21st Century

Period: Jan 1, 1792 to Jan 1, 1868

Gioachino Antonio Rossini

Period: Jan 1, 1797 to Jan 1, 1826

Franz Peter Schubert

Jan 1, 1803

Louisiana Purchase

Period: Jan 1, 1803 to Jan 1, 1869

Louis Hector Berlioz

Period: Jan 1, 1810 to Jan 1, 1856

Robert Alexander Schumann

Period: Jan 1, 1810 to Jan 1, 1849

Frédéric François Chopin

Period: Jan 1, 1811 to Jan 1, 1886

Franz Ritter von Liszt

Jan 1, 1812

War of 1812 Begins

Period: Jan 1, 1813 to Jan 1, 1883

Wilhelm Richard Wagner

Period: Jan 1, 1813 to Jan 1, 1901

Giuseppe Fortunino Francesco Verdi

Jan 1, 1814

War of 1812 Ends

Period: Jan 1, 1819 to Jan 1, 1896

Clara Joesphine Wieck Schumann

Period: Jan 1, 1820 to Jan 1, 1860

Early Romantic Era

Period: Jan 1, 1824 to Jan 1, 1884

Bedrîch Smetana

May 28, 1830

Indian Removal Act

Period: Jan 1, 1833 to Jan 1, 1867

Johannes Brahms

Period: Jan 1, 1840 to Jan 1, 1893

Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky

Period: Jan 1, 1843 to Jan 1, 1907

Edvard Hagerup Grieg

Jan 1, 1852

Uncle Tom's Cabin is Published

May 1, 1857

Dred Scott vs. Sanford

Declares blacks as non US citizens

Period: Jan 1, 1858 to Jan 1, 1923

Puccini

Period: Jan 1, 1860 to Jan 1, 1900

Late Romantic Era

Period: Jan 1, 1860 to Jan 1, 1911

Gustav Mahler

Jan 29, 1861

American Civil War Begins

Period: Jan 1, 1862 to Jan 1, 1918

Achille-Claude Debussy

Period: Jan 1, 1864 to Jan 1, 1949

Richard Georg Strauss

Apr 15, 1865

Lincoln Assassination/American Civil War Ends

Jan 1, 1866

The Civil Rights Act of 1866

Jan 1, 1866

Ku Klux Klan Founded

Period: Jan 1, 1874 to Jan 1, 1954

Charles Edward Ives

Period: Jan 1, 1875 to Jan 1, 1937

Joesph-Maurice Ravel

Period: Jan 1, 1875 to Jan 1, 1951

Arnold Schönberg

Period: Jan 1, 1881 to Jan 1, 1945

Béla Viktor János Bartók

Period: Jan 1, 1882 to Jan 1, 1971

Igor Fyodorovich Stravinsky

Period: Jan 1, 1895 to Jan 1, 1982

Carl Heinrich Maria Orff

Jan 1, 1896

Plessy vs. Ferguson

Period: Jan 1, 1898 to Jan 1, 1937

Jacob Gershwin

Period: Jan 1, 1900 to Jan 1, 1950

Early 20th Century

Period: Jan 1, 1900 to Jan 1, 1990

Aaron Copland

Feb 12, 1909

NAACP Founded

Period: Jan 1, 1912 to Jan 1, 1992

John Milton Cage Jr.

Apr 6, 1917

US Declares war on Germany

This is what started the United States' involvement in World War I.

Period: Jan 1, 1918 to Jan 1, 1990

Louis Berstein

Jun 28, 1919

End of World War I

Jan 1, 1920

The Great Depression

Period: Jan 1, 1936 to May 9, 2017

Stephen Michael Reich

Sep 1, 1939

Nazi Germany invades Poland

Dec 7, 1941

Attack on Pearl Harbor

American Involvement in World War II

Aug 9, 1945

Bombing of Nagasaki

Period: Jan 1, 1950 to May 8, 2017

Late 20th/Early 21st Centuries

May 17, 1954

Brown vs. Board of Education

Jan 1, 1955

Civil Rights Movement Begins

Period: Jan 1, 1962 to May 9, 2017